Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] it [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 You should treat it as a straightforward job of work and get on with it .
2 NEXT time Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra perform Messiaen 's Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum they should do it in a great cathedral .
3 A bottle will keep for a couple of hours once out of the fridge , but if you need to keep it for longer you should store it in an insulated cool-bag until it 's needed .
4 ‘ People can either do the walk in one spell or a bit every weekend , though they should complete it in a 12-month period ’ said Bill .
5 Everyone must admire it as a supreme example of the unremitting development of one basic situation , Iago 's destruction of Othello , with a claustrophilic refusal to digress or vary from its path , yet no one is known to have enjoyed it .
6 As well as selecting the relevant information you must arrange it in a logical way .
7 If the amendment is seconded by another person who has not spoken on the original motion , the Chairman must accept it as a new motion , subject to the provisos that the amendment is not a simple negative of the motion ; is relevant ; does not cover ground that has been dealt with under a previous amendment ; and is not frivolous nor illegal .
8 You must hit it on a regular basis !
9 ‘ Paulo 's suggested we should turn it into a small club for residents , and , from what I 've seen , it seems like a good idea . ’
10 He should turn it to a profounder end , producing masterpieces in another man 's name .
11 If they do n't hear anything else then they 'll regard it as a false alarm .
12 ‘ We 'll treat it as a scaphoid fracture .
13 Might make it with a better
14 Erm the training course er as I said two days er I 'll count it as a full training course .
15 Curtis , fully aware that this was the last night of the Prophet 's current crusade , had anticipated that he might choose it for a last hunting expedition , before retreating to his lair upstate .
16 a green one or something , but I 'll do it as a red one
17 I 'll do it for a hundred and thirty quid no more !
18 They 'll remember it as a tremendous part of their lives .
19 I might stick it on a flying lead and wander around with it for a bit and see where it 's best .
20 So do you think that erm when this law was erm pushed through in nineteen forty seven that er perhaps Mao you know well I think there 's been a bit of excess now , I think we 'll do some we just need , we just need a bit of a rush now just to take us through a bit and then we 'll stop it in a few months time .
21 ‘ There 's a danger they 'll develop it in a piecemeal fashion .
22 Later when you are satisfied , you might read it to a limited number of people — just one or two .
23 And there 's a lo there 's a whole industry built up about inheritance tax planning where you actually write something in trust for your dependents , and er that 's simple in that if you 're in good health now , you can write say a twenty thousand pounds inheritance tax cover , under trust for your children so that 's paid outside the estate , it does n't make the matters worse , and mo most conveniently at retirement it 's simple to do because you might pay it on an annual premium or a regular monthly premium , and it might cost you twenty or thirty pounds a month , but at least you can forget it then .
24 We 'll leave it to a softer Pen :
25 For a meal , and like , we were really keen to try this and everything , and we , we did n't , we sort of kept saying , oh shall we open this bottle tonight , and they said no , we 'll save it for a special occasion .
26 No you can not , you 'll write it like a normal , a formal letter , like you would write to Melanie
27 And he 'll put it into a nice neat accountancy type form .
28 ‘ Well I 'll put it in a few words .
29 He goes look , I 'll write it down on an envelope , I 'll put it in a little envelope and you look at it before you die , but promise me you wo n't look at it before you die cos if you look at it before you die , it 'll happen to you .
30 If what you want is to peruse a publication like Big Women , you 'll find it in a discreet magazine rack in a corner of the Smoking Room .
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